Word: tennist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-one-year-old Katherine Stammers, No. 3 British woman tennist: the semi-finals of the Kent Championship, defeating 28-year-old Helen Wills Moody 6-0, 6-4. First player ever to win a love set from longtime Champion Moody, in retirement since 1933, Miss Stammers graciously attributed her victory to the fact that Mrs. Moody "wasn't anywhere near her top." Next day Miss Stammers lost to England's No. 1. Dorothy Round. Unaltered was Mrs. Moody's plan for a comeback at Wimbledon next week...
Early one morning Professional Tennist Vincent Richards was driving through The Bronx. Drowsy or blinded by headlights, he swerved into an electric light pole, clipped it off, demolished his car. Doctors said he had a broken right arm. a broken thigh, a dislocated hip which might end his career...
Engaged. Lester Stoefen, 23, professional tennist; and Ruth Moody, 18, Denver-born film actress, niece of Banker Albert Henry Wiggin...
...tennis. In England, the only expert player who is likely to use the name ping-pong for the game invented by British Army officers in South Africa before the turn of the Century, is Frederick Perry. World's ping-pong champion before he became its No. 1 lawn tennist, Perry now prefers not to hear about his youthful exploits with a paddle...
...Melbourne last week Britain's Fred Perry, currently the world's No. 1 tennist, lost to Jack Crawford in the final of the Australian championship, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. Said Perry, after the match: "This may be the last time Crawford and I will meet." Newshawks were quick to sense the implication: when Tilden's tour starts next year, Perry may be star attraction...